{"product_id":"plenitude-9781800174108","title":"Plenitude","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing upon \u003ci\u003ePandemonium\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and \u003ci\u003eProphecy\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), \u003ci\u003ePlenitude\u003c\/i\u003e marks a moment of completion and buoyant plenty in a very real and contemporary Irish world. Enriched at all times by a sense of history - the precise histories of heritage gardens, of novelists such as Molly Keane and Waterford neighbours who had gone to the Great War - his is a poetry of both brief formal lyric and longer historical meditation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA working gardener since early childhood, his thoughts return constantly to images of seasonal change within humanised landscapes, to flowers, trees and changing seasons. The plenitude of the present moment in Ireland, its unexpected prosperity, is constantly prised open to reveal painful childhood memories and stressful political meditations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith McCarthy, the past, and the past remembered, is never far from the surface of the poems, and \u003ci\u003ePlenitude\u003c\/i\u003e contains many such illuminated moments, whether the poet is walking in the great Fota House gardens or pausing at a winter cafe in New York's Upper Westside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Carcanet Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781800174108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.10w x 0.30d","brand":"Thomas McCarthy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52259614687413,"sku":"9781800174108","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e5424bf0-4e9a-47ac-b156-9cbdd9410933.jpg?v=1771342480","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/plenitude-9781800174108","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}